America has been described by many as the ‘great melting pot’. This moniker emphasizing the far reaching and ever inclusive ...

But the Ellis Island narrative is misleading. While early 20th-century immigrants were poor by today’s standards, they were positively selected relative to their home countries — often better ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official ...

The US has seen its largest surge in immigration in its history under the Biden Administration — surpassing the Ellis Island-era migration boom that changed the face of the nation forever ...

These photographs show a tiny handful of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the immigration station at New York's Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

Ponce Bank President and CEO Carlos Naudon has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, ...

Writer Rachel Cockerell talks about an effort known as the Galveston Movement in the early 20th century to convince Russian ...

Theodore DeWeese, the CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of ...